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It’s still open world in the sense that there are plenty of places you can go to and in any order without being gated through a linear story line.

Even if you were to ignore my advice, it wouldn’t be any more open world because travelling between these areas is always gated by loading screens.

My suggestion is merely to reduce the amount of loading screens between zones.

Instead of leaving constellation, loading Jameisom, getting on the train, loading the shipyard, entering your ship, loading the ship interior, taking off, loading space, going to your map, selecting warp to sol, loading sol, selecting a landing site on Cydonia, loading your ship interior on cydonia, leaving your ship, and loading cydonia.

I’m suggesting you fast travel straight from the lodge to cydonia. Cutting 7 loading screens down to 1.

Of course, I also recommend that you take time to explore the areas you’re in.

I have literally never watched or read a review of ESO or Fallout 76.

I played both.

ESO fails at being a solid Elder Scrolls game because it’s tailored more toward an MMO experience. The writing is awful, and the quests are boring. The combat sucks, and the social features are abysmal given you can’t even share quests. Literally the only reason I could imagine anyone playing this game is because they want to grind out an MMO every day that’s set in the Elder Scrolls universe.

Fallout 76, I don’t even know where to start. Again, the MMO mechanics tear out everything good about Fallout games to deliver a bland, grindy MMO with bad combat.

You don’t need to do all that stuff though. Use your missions tab and the map to travel directly where you need to go.

It’s a massive open world game, there are going to be loading screens. But you can limit them by fast traveling directly.

I thought the main quest lines were pretty great.

All the side content is pretty bland though.

The loading screens aren’t bad if you’re properly using fast travel.

Morrowind and Fallout NV are incredible.

Fallout 3, Oblivion, and Skyrim are great.

Fallout 4 is bland as hell.

Fallout 76 and ESO are hot garbage.

I’d put Starfield in the great tier.

I’m just so confused. I’ve been running Win 11 retail since launch and before that I ran Win 10 since launch. I’ve never seen anything like this.

How are you guys seeing this? I constantly hear these complaints but never see it myself.

Have you tried 3.5 or 4?

I haven’t had many issues in 4. Occasionally it does what you’re saying and I just say “bro, that doesn’t exist” and it’s like “oh, my bad, here you go.” And gives me something that works.

lmao please

In the grand scheme of the media industry, they are. Moreover, Floatplane is a separate entity with < 50k users.

I don’t use Spotify, but yes, I pay for YouTube premium (which comes with YouTube Music, which I use instead of Spotify). I use YouTube a lot. $13.99 is not that much money for so much video and music content.

And I’m not saying don’t pirate anything ever. But come on, when people build a platform to try and do things right, to ethically support their creators, we ought to support those platforms.

It does when they can’t keep running the service anymore because your broke asses won’t support it.

It’s a small platform that costs a lot to run. Attempting to provide a fair and ethical alternative to YouTube.

Don’t use the service unless you’re going to support it.

It’s safer, faster, more reliable, and much easier to automate.

I only paid $20 for a lifetime subscription.

Stop using torrents and start using newsgroups.

Of all the people to pirate from, Floatplane shouldn’t be one of them…